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News Corp reported that police allegedly found three resealable plastic bags containing about 1.1 grams of a white powder which they believed to be cocaine. "The Western Sydney Wanderers remains tot...

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto promised yesterday to better protect journalists after the killing of a renowned reporter who wrote about drug gangs sparked worldwide outrage. Homicides in gener...

Eighty-three Chibok schoolgirls seized three years ago by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria have been released into military custody, with authorities saying hopes are high a further mass release will ...

On the West Shore, the NDP showed their support remains strong, with party leader John Horgan racing to a huge victory over challengers Cathy Noel of the Liberals and Brendan Ralfs of the Greens - tha...

Three front-runners have emerged in Iran's presidential election: Hassan Rouhani, Ebrahimi Raisi, and Mohammad Ghalibaf. Mohammad-Baghar Ghalibaf, who has twice before been defeated in presidential ...

The unofficial Elections BC numbers have the Liberals elected in 43 ridings, the NDP elected in 41 ridings with the Green Party holding the balance of power with three of its members elected. "People ...

He said that while a Labour government would want a "strong and friendly" relationship with the U.S., it would "not be afraid to speak our mind" to Washington. "It doesn't make me a pacifist". He sa...

Earlier a spokesman in Netanyahu's office confirmed the phone call took place on Tuesday afternoon but did not say who initiated it. President Trump secretly spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjam...

The President has long insisted the investigation will not discover any wrongdoing. At a hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, the acting Federal Bureau of Investigation director Andrew McCabe contra...

Valls, a man deeply associated with the unpopular President François Hollande, supported Macron rather than the Socialist Party candidate during the presidential election. Macron's party now has no se...

While the national living wage for workers aged 25 and over, now £7.50 will rise in line with average earnings until 2022. Mr Serwotka added: "As a government, they have introduced the most anti-tra...

The news, which sent another shock wave through Washington, heightened concerns that Trump tried to block the probe into his campaign's ties to Russian Federation, the Globe's Matt Viser reports. Na...

There is no question that, as the former adviser to Nixon and Clinton, David Gergen, put it this week we are in "impeachment territory". There is a belief in this country that no one is above the law....

The dispute could ignite more fighting between the two key USA allies in the battle against the Islamic State group as Syrian Kurdish forces gear up for a major operation to drive the militants from...

The splintered election outcome that saw the Greens win three seats and potentially hold the balance of power in an 87-seat legislature has Green leader Andrew Weaver calculating the benefits of co-op...

Anshu's double ascent expedition was flagged off this year by His Holiness Dalai Lama on April 2 from Guwahati. A mother of two teenage children, Anshu scaled Mount Everest twice in May 2011 and aga...

If the Trump administration deemed it appropriate, Putin said Russian Federation could hand over a transcript of Trump's meeting with Lavrov to us lawmakers to reassure them that no secrets were rev...

The cyber attack has dominated headlines for a number of days, with hackers requiring payment to allow users back into an estimated 230,000 computer systems across the world. "It spread very, very qui...

John McCain invoked Watergate when he described the escalating controversy that surrounds alleged ties between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russian Federation. After the firings, calls f...

An English lawmaker from the ruling Conservatives who told a schoolgirl supporter of Scottish independence to "fuck off back to Scotland" and said he meant that as a joke, drew criticism on Monday f...

Manning was arrested in 2010 and sentenced in 2013. "I can imagine surviving and living as the person who I am and can finally be in the outside world", she wrote last week. Manning attempted suicide ...

On Monday evening in Berlin, the president said he doesn't want to pull existing euro area government debt and pledged to implement economic reform in France as he sought to revive the French-German p...

The girls were released near the town of Banki in Borno state near Cameroon and will be transported to the capital, Abuja . The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to sp...

Events

Assistant Fire Commissioner Dan Daly said it was a large and very serious incident. "Residents continue to be evacuated from the tower block fire". London Mayor Sadiq Khan has issued a brief statement saying "major incident" is declared at the Grenfell Tower in Kensington.

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They said they were grateful their son would "finally be with people who love him". After nearly a year and a half in a North Korean prison, a University of Virginia student is coming home, though reportedly in a coma. The third is a businessman named Kim Dong Chul. The State Department did not comment beyond Tillerson's brief announcement. The U.S., which has no trade with the North, can only apply economic pressure on the regime through secondary sanctions that prevent target entities ...

On Thursday, Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss his firing, which occurred in May, the investigation into any potential ties between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign and the possibility Trump may have obstructed justice when he put pressure on Comey to drop the investigation into Gen.

I love how Senator Harris gets manterrupted by her colleagues for insisting that Sessions answer. Miller responds with, "It was a completely partisan screed", before Powers cuts him off by reposing her question, "How was that hysterical?" "It makes me nervous", the most senior public law enforcement officer in America said.